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Iraqis turn to budding ecotourism to save marshes
Straddling Iraq’s famous Tigris and Euphrates rivers, the Mesopotamian marshes are a rare aquatic ecosystem in a country nearly half of which is covered in cracked desert
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In pictures: Basra Museum unveils ‘looted’ artefacts
Over 2,000 artefacts, including about 100 that were looted and found abroad went on display in the Basra Museum, the second largest in Iraq.